How much is left after peeling a catty of green walnuts?
About 5-6, depending on the maturity of your walnuts. Walnuts will be heavier if cooked well. Sun-dried, about 3 kilograms can produce one kilogram of dried.
The difference between green walnut and common walnut
Walnut with green skin: it is a walnut picked in just mature season, with white and tender core, which is suitable for eating now.
Ordinary walnuts: Generally, walnuts are peeled and dried, mainly for the convenience of preservation.
Both green walnut and common walnut have very high nutritional value.
What harm does walnut green peel do to human body?
Walnut green skin is called Qinglong clothes. Animal experiments show that the inorganic potassium salt contained in green walnut is an active component of analgesia, which has a significant effect on the electrical activity of pain response neurons in the parafascicular nucleus of thalamus in rats. Inorganic salts of green walnut can increase the ratio of K/Ca ions in the brain of mice, increase the content of 5-HT in the brain of mice, and stimulate some neurons to release transmitters under the action of central nervous system to modulate pain response, thus achieving analgesic effect. In addition, fresh green tangerine peel juice (distilled water from dried tangerine peel) can be used to treat tinea. Peeling off the green peel of fresh and tender walnut with a knife can be used for external treatment of tinea corporis, tinea cruris, psoriasis, tinea capitis and alopecia.
Walnut green peel contains a variety of bioactive components, and contains a lot of vitamin C before maturity. The active components extracted from walnut green peel were preliminarily screened by BSLB method. Ethyl acetate extract has obvious cytotoxicity and is expected to be further studied and made into new anti-tumor drugs.
Walnut with green peel can be used to treat skin itching and pain, and walnut with green peel soaked in wine can be used to treat liver and stomach gas pain, gastric neuralgia, acute and chronic stomachache. In 1950s, green walnut wine soaking agent was used to treat stomach pain, dysmenorrhea and cancer pain at home and abroad. , instead of morphine, tincture of opium and other painkillers, has received good analgesic effect.